The First Ranger
Chapter 1
A teenager in green clothing had just said good-bye to his friends, and was about to go home. Suddenly, creatures in grey appeared from thin air, and attacked the teen. A woman with a long wand, Rita Repulsa, looked on, judging the boy's skills to be the Green Ranger.
Soon enough, the grey creatures, Putties, were defeated, and Rita had made her decision. "Tommy!" The wind blew with great force through the ally, causing light objects to take flight in the strong gust of wind. The teenager, Tommy, looked to where the voice called from the roof. A plastic bag flew into his face. "I have chosen you!" With her evil laughter, Rita Repulsa points her wand to Tommy. The boy was engulfed in a green light, and disappeared; his bag lay forgotten on the deserted street.
The Green Ranger walked the halls of the Mars Castle belonging to his empress, learning the layout of his new home. He passed an armory, kitchen, dining hall, second kitchen, pantry, living quarters, library, a glowing room- Tommy stopped. He stepped back in front of the door that light glowed through the cracks. The color was that of the color of the moon. The Green Ranger considered entering; he had not been told to avoid certain areas, so it should be alright.
He opened the door to see some sort of pod attached to the opposite wall, and it was that which gave the room its light. The pod's walls were made of something transparent, maybe glass, and could see someone inside, an unconsious girl (who looked his age) in a white, almost silver robe floating in the liquid of the pod.
Tommy panicked, saw the control panel, and got the girl out in a rush of blurs. She fell to the stone floor with a thump, the liquid splashed loudly onto the stone floor, and the Green Ranger checked to see if she was still alive; she was. On her arm was the Greek letter for alpha; the boy thought that was odd. The girl had long white hair that was equally as wet as her robe.
Coughing alerted Tommy to the girl's awakening, and he saw her grasp at her throat as she coughed. "Are you okay?" He asked when she stopped, and the girl looked towards him, her head tilted like a dog that didn't understand. He felt the feeling of dread approach; did she know a different language, or something? "Can you understand me?" She had struggled to sit on her legs, and her face showed frustration when she tried to speak, but only gibberish passed her lips. Eventually, she just nodded, apparently unhappy with her inability to say words. "What's your name?" Tommy asked, and the girl with red-amber eyes shrugged her shoulders; she couldn't remember anything before she was released from that container.
"Then I'll give you a name." Tommy removed his Green Ranger helmet to think and scratch his head. The girl looked at Tommy's face like she was memorizing it, and she likely was. "How about Alfa?" Alfa smiled and nodded happily; the name sounded familiar to her.
Tommy was about to ask another question when he heard his empress speak throughout the castle. "Green Ranger, I have a task for you to accomplish."
"Stay here." He said to Alfa as he donned his helmet, but as soon as he turned a corner, she followed him. The two made their way all the way to the balcony where Rita Repulsa waited.
"Ah, Green Ranger-" Rita stopped when Alfa entered after Tommy; fearful recognition flitted across her face. "How did she get here?" The evil empress asked her Green Ranger with her screechy voice.
Tommy turned with a speed that made him a green blur. "Alfa! I told you to stay where you were!" He admonished the girl with long, tangled white hair. She looked sorry, and tried to say as much, but failed; Alfa walked closer to the Green Ranger with her head downwards as she reached for one of his fingers, and held on. It was an apology. Tommy faced Rita, and kneeled. "I apologize, my empress. I take full responsibility for her."
Rita looked at Alfa's face, searching for any trace of recognition. Seeing none, Rita Repulsa nodded. "See to it that you do." The empress spun to her Green Ranger. "Now, your task is to sabotage the Power Ranger's command center. I also have this," Rita held up a disk that glinted ominously, "for the robot Zordon keeps to maintain the command center." The Green Ranger stood to take the disk with great care from his empress. "And when you return, you will train…" Rita looked at the symbol on the girl's arm. "Alfa in the way of battle."
Tommy kneeled before his empress. "As you wish, my queen." With that, The Green Ranger vanished.
Rita turned on the girl. "Listen to me, girl." She said threateningly with a finger and long nail pointed at Alfa. "You will follow my orders or be destroyed. I have defeated you once, I can defeat you again." It was partially true. Rita had defeated the girl before, but has yet been able to end the girl's life; hopefully, the amnesiac girl would not see through her bluff.
Alfa nodded her head vigorously in fear, and made motions that resembled the question for permission to leave. Rita summoned Baboo to take her to an unoccupied room. Baboo looked shocked to see Alfa, but quickly scurried to follow his queen's orders.
Baboo was friendly, Alfa decided as he walked her to her new room, describing the chambers as they passed. The short, blue monster had been a good guide, and had even gotten her a different robe, seeing as the one she was wearing was still wet with the substance from the pod. As she looked at herself in the reflection, Alfa decided calling it a robe wasn't correct; probably a white dress of some sort would match better. The blue monster stopped to get her food before closing the door to her room with her inside. Alfa could hear the lock click and Baboo's feet trudge away. All she could do was eat and wait on the boy who freed her from that pod.
She didn't wait long. Soon, the sound of the door unlocking and opening made their way to Alfa's ears.
Her training was completed during the next few months, and was going to join the Green Ranger in the next battle when Tommy was defeated, and the evil spell placed upon him by Rita was broken.
Fearing Alfa would soon turn on her, the girl was soon returned to the pod. She was frozen in time once again; the fluids of the suspended animation chamber slowly leeched away her memories for a second time, with an odd side affect that no one would notice until it would be too late, but that story is for later.
"We really owe a lot to Alpha." Trini said as she gestured to the robot.
Tommy's eyes widened. "Oh no." The phrase was all that was needed to get everyone's attention.
"What? What is it?" Kimberly said with worry. What was wrong this time?
Tommy looked to his fellow teens. "There was another human on the Mars Castle when I served Rita. I freed her from this pod-thing, but she couldn't remember anything, and could barely get her body to move the way she wanted it to." He looked to Zordon. "She had the Greek alpha symbol on her arm. Who was she, Zordon? Was she a Power Ranger?"
Zordon seemed almost reluctant to tell them. "There was such a Power Ranger I recall from ten thousand years ago. She was Alpha Ranger, the first Power Ranger ever created."
"But Zordon," Billy spoke up. "Humans weren't around ten thousand years ago, and even if they did, they couldn't survive up until now. It's preposterous!"
"While that may be true, Billy." Zordon continued. "Alpha Ranger was from a different dimension, just as I am from this dimension. She was summoned to defeat Rita, but she was ill-equipped and unprepared. The best Alpha Ranger could do was seal herself and her enemies until someone was ready to defeat her. The pod Tommy had seen had probably been a suspended animation chamber so Rita could figure out how to create her own Power Ranger." Zordon's eyes moved to Tommy. "That is how I believe Rita created your power coin."
Rita tried to blackmail Tommy into serving her to save Alfa's life and his Green Ranger powers, but he refuses.
"Fine then." Rita screeches as she began to pull a lever downwards. The Green Ranger tried to stop her, running between, over, and around any obstacles before him to stop Rita from launching Alfa and her pod into the Earth's surface.
But he was too late. The pod was launched at the Earth, with Alfa inside. Tommy reached after the pod flying through the air, as if he could grab it and stop it from crashing into the surface of the Earth. "No!" Then pain coursed through his body as Tommy felt his Green Ranger Powers die away with the green candle.
They both believed Alfa to be dead from the impact with the Earth's surface, but they were wrong. She was asleep deep inside the Earth within the safety of the suspended animation chamber, where she would be found a decade later by one Anton Mercer.
((A/N: Let me know how I did. This is SariauChan, signing off!))